Orchos Chaim of the Rosh #81-82 Look To Those of Higher Spiritual State

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com okay good afternoon everyone shamalik we continue in the skym of the rush i think uh now would be a good time to mention that one of the important perushim on the achievement of the rush is none other than kenyabski and in the safer siach hasadah this is the safer seahasada requiem has many swarm in here you have something called safer zikarain about all the things that help you remember you have mara makoim that's any time rashi or toisis bring a medusa they don't say where it is tells you where it is you have the safer tash by the way then in the bays you have a safer yusuf hadas which are answers to all of the marshall's questions paschagen aksav which is a safer on tattoos you have a safer karne kagovim on eating locust and there's another safer there as well okay we continue in ice pay aleph of the orchestrime of the rush do not look at someone who is less than you in the service of hashem and in fear of god kim the god only to someone who is greater than you now this is in contrast to ois nun tess you take a look back at ois the uh says don't look at someone who has more money than you so there are the russia's saying don't look at someone who has more than you materially ella lamishu but rather to someone who's below you now we're talking about inyane rukhniyas in allison untest he says look at people who have less than you in gashmiyas now he's saying always look at someone who has more than you in ruchnius don't look at someone who does less than you um yeah he comes later than i come to shul or he doesn't dive in with as much kavanagh as i do so it makes you feel good it makes you feel like you know you've arrived you've really accomplished always look at people who do more than you that guy comes a good 10 minutes before i come to a good five minutes that guy hidavan's more than i better than i do so always look at people who do more than you by the way ravino yoino writes in parque away yeah but let's say i live in new york and in new york uh i'm doing pretty good yeah yeah but if you would have been living in benebrach you'd have had a you know the guy on the right and the guy on the left would be a hundred times uh doing better than you but then the rush says is and if there's no one around who's better than you then look at look up to those who are in earlier generations compare yourself to compare yourself to a vikivega compare yourself to those in early and previous generations now if i could remind you the in austin and tess the taisus yamtif had a very powerful line i i took this as a very uh powerful line of um where the toasters young have said this is kodabara of goldberg and it's kofsam that the this way you won't be late you won't be jealous of anybody you'll be happy with your money and you could guide your life and you could live a life of fear of sin the mihudim and you can live a jewish life meaning the media of the jewish people throughout the generations the derek of avisainu is never to look at anybody else's material possessions always look at those who have less than you that's not just um something that's alpe moser this is the traditional jewish way of life now the ideas that the rush mentions here is look at people who serve hashem more than you or have more fear of sin because these are both things that are within a person's capacity a person could be more moist or nefesh to do more avoida or person could be more muscular to gay near shamayim like but look how the rush does not say look at someone who is a bigger than you that's not within a person's capacity why should you why should a person compare themselves to someone who has more than them we know the gemara says in need of goldberg quotes that when a per that at the time of conception amalah comes and it's determined this tipa whether it will be a khachem or a tippish and therefore to compare yourself in someone else is dangerous it might make a person feel bad but certainly when it comes to avoid us hashem or your shamayim that's within a person's capacity then in fact a person should then a person should compare themselves to other people in terms of look at those who do more than you one more ice always do not lift your hand to your friend even if he curses your father and your mother in in front of you in your presence do not raise your hand to them why because we know someone who raises their hand to their friend is called a russia like we find in sanhedrin with goldberg quotes lingaman sanhedrin and khas mentions that there's a love to raise your hand to your friend and the love is not lifted even in a situation where somebody is being mavaza your father and mother rebhaim kinievsky said in his that even if somebody badmouths your father and mother in an improper way do not respond inappropriately but be hakeyashinov hakeshina means answer them back in a way silence them say you're not saying the truth and then drop it rabbit sala jolty in makarkayam he calls rabbit that if you hear somebody speaking about your father and mother shalom blunt their teeth say you're speaking falsehood but you can't hit them now says with goldberg not only are you allowed to answer them back but you're obligated to and don't say well i should be me love him no that's when they're insulting you not if they're insulting your parents the quran of hassamer host of he writes that even though in baba kamadaf it's brought to be mafrish may israel you could hit someone even without besden that's before the isr is done to stop them from doing the issur but here they already insulted your parent says joti if by hitting them you'll prevent them from doing it again then perhaps it would be permitted to hit them under those circumstances okay everybody say hold it over here we'll see everybody tomorrow 5 p.m thank you for joining wishing everyone a wonderful day you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com